TIL that the Soviet Union was issued a top-level internet domain just before its 1991 collapse. The domain was never deactivated and has since become a haven for cybercriminals due to its lack of regulation.
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Gizmodo
Tons of Hackers Are Hanging Out in Old Soviet Cyberspace
The Internet is a huge place. Some parts of it are awesome, but others are...less so. And falling squarely in that latter category is the ancient .su domain, once the cyberhome of the Soviet Union. It's not exactly well maintained, or well policed, which…
TIL a California HS teacher designed an experiment/demonstration to explain how the German population could accept the actions of the Nazi regime during WWII. It lasted 5 days and grew from just his class of 30 to over 200 students.
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Wikipedia
The Third Wave (experiment)
social experiment on the spread of Nazism
TIL that Harry Houdini in disguise would attend magic shows by people who claimed to be "spiritual mediums", knowing their trick, he would finally light a flashlight that left the deception in the open and stand up and cry “I am Houdini! And you are a fraud!"
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OpenMind
Houdini, the Hunter of Fake Ghosts | OpenMind
The famous escapist Harry Houdini dedicated part of his carreer to the discovery of spiritists' scams, which led him to meet Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
TIL Octopuses are immune to the stings of various types of jellyfish. They know this and will often rip off the stings of man-o-war (species closely related to jellyfish) and use them as whips to defend themselves from larger predators.
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National Geographic News
Watch as Octopus Eats Jellyfish, Then Clings to It as Likely Weapon
A remotely operated vehicle caught the moment a rarely seen deep-sea octopus ate a jellyfish and dragged its tentacles, possibly to use for defense.
TIL that there was a novel published 14 years before the Titanic sank (and well before it was built or conceptualized) about a supposedly unsinkable ship called the Titan that ultimately strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic Sea and sinks in April
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The Wreck of the Titan: Or, Futility
1898 novella written by Morgan Robertson
TIL that most Korean people don’t have armpit odor. Only 0.006% of the Korean population have the ABCC11 gene, which is the cause of armpit odor. As a result deodorants are rarely sold in Korea.
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Scientific American
People without Gene for Underarm Odor Still Wear Deodorant
Societal norms often dictate the products people use even if they don’t need them
TIL about Helga de la Brache. A woman who grew up in lower class circumstances but succesfully posed as a Swedish princess for years. Convincing even the Swedish royal family who gave her a pension and "furniture befitting a princess."
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Wikipedia
Helga de la Brache
Swedish con artist
TIL that in 2000, a man named Danny Stewart found an abandoned newborn baby in a NYC subway station. The baby went unclaimed for 3 months. Stewart later attended a court hearing, and the judge asked him if he wanted to adopt the infant. Stewart said yes. He and his partner named the baby Kevin.
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NBC New York
Couple Tells Story of Adopting Baby Found in Subway 12 Years Ago
To understand how Danny Stewart, Peter Mercurio and their son Kevin became a family of three, you have to go back 12 years to the 14th Street A/C/E subway station in Chelsea.
TIL Bilingual reduced emotional resonance is a fairly well-established phenomenon were many bilinguals report “feeling less” in their second language, which might make it easier to use highly emotional vocabulary, and swear.
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the Guardian
Bad language: why being bilingual makes swearing easier
Bilingual reduced emotional resonance is fairly well-established, but why does it happen? And does that have a knock-on effect for different communities?
TiL that two members of the band Joy Division were questioned on suspicion of being the Yorkshire Ripper as the band's tour schedule coincided with Peter Sutcliffe's (the actual killer's) movements
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Radio X
Peter Hook: I Was Questioned About Yorkshire Ripper Murders
The bassist reveals the time he was caught up in the investigation when he was in Joy Division...
TIL production of alarm clocks in the US stopped in 1942, to direct resources towards the war effort. In 1944 production was restarted due to the number of workers arriving late because broken alarm clocks, and being unable to buy new ones.
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Wikipedia
Alarm clock
type of clock used to wake up a sleeping person at a certain time
TIL How Mister Rogers Used King Friday to Make Friday the 13th Less Scary for Kids. Friday the 13th was considered to be the King's birthday. Whenever the 13th fell on a Friday, during the years that the show was in production, the show staff would celebrate with a birthday cake.
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Mentalfloss
How Mister Rogers Used King Friday to Make Friday the 13th Less Scary for Kids
King Friday might be king of Calendarland, but Mister Rogers is definitely the king of understanding kids.
TIL during filming of The Toast of New Orleans, Mario Lanza kept trying to french kiss Kathryn Grayson which was made even worse by his garlic breath. Costume designer Helen Rose sewed brass into Grayson's gloves, so that anytime Lanza tried to kiss her, she hit him with the brass-filled glove.
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Wikipedia
Kathryn Grayson
actress from the United States
TIL that Godzilla is a registered citizen in Japan.
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Time
Godzilla Is Now an 'Official' Citizen of Japan
The special resident will serve as a tourism ambassador
TIL that in July of this year a female National Guard soldier graduated from Special Forces training and received her Green Beret, the first in history to do so. The soldier’s name and other biographical information have been withheld by the Army for personal and operational security reasons.
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CNN
A woman soldier is joining the Green Berets -- a first for the Army Special Forces unit
A woman soldier for the first time will join the Green Berets, one of the Army's most elite units, after graduating this week from US Army Special Forces training.
TIL in 1958, 14-year-old Cheryl Crane stabbed the boyfriend of her mother, Hollywood actress Lana Turner. He was physically abusive towards Turner during their relationship, and had threatened to kill her and her daughter; the homicide was deemed justifiable and Crane was cleared of wrongdoing.
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Wikipedia
Johnny Stompanato homicide
1958 killing ruled to be self-defense
TIL the word "skunk" is derived from a word that literally means pee fox
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Submitted November 13, 2020 at 09:59PM by imabananabus
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Skunk
common name of mammals in the family Mephitidae
TIL that for 12 years, the Mr. Potato Head toy was intended to be used with real potatoes.
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Submitted November 13, 2020 at 11:25PM by knoxsox
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Mr. Potato Head
American toy
TIL Steven Spielberg, Robin Williams, and Dustin Hoffman did not take salaries for the movie 'Hook'. Instead, they split 40% of TriStar Pictures' gross revenues.
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Submitted November 14, 2020 at 03:35AM by AbrahamRinkin
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Hook (film)
Hook is a 1991 American fantasy swashbuckler adventure film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by James V. Hart and Malia Scotch Marmo. It stars Robin Williams as Peter Banning / Peter Pan, Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook, Julia Roberts as Tinker Bell…
TIL that in 2013 Detroit was so broke that they were unable to print out death certificates because they had not been able to pay the company that provided the special embossed paper on which they were printed, and subsequently ran out.
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Submitted November 14, 2020 at 01:39AM by rwalker151
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TIL We are currently in the Stelliferous Era, which in the grand scale of the universe is the age where stars are created throughout the universe. Eventually all stars will burn out, & we will enter the Black Hole Era followed by the Dark Era, where there is no longer any light in the universe.
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Submitted November 14, 2020 at 02:16AM by gomi-panda
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Future of an expanding universe
Observations suggest that the expansion of the universe will continue forever. If so, then a popular theory is that the universe will cool as it expands, eventually becoming too cold to sustain life. For this reason, this future scenario once popularly called…